WEBVTT - Norte Fire Coverage (10/16) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640, you're listening to the John Cobell Podcast 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:12.190 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. 0:00:12.850 --> 0:00:16.950 John Cobelt Show rolling on here. We are on until 0:00:17.010 --> 0:00:19.529 six after six. John Cobelt Show on demand. That's the 0:00:19.570 --> 0:00:22.870 podcast to listen to what you missed. And the fire 0:00:22.989 --> 0:00:27.070 is going strong in Orange County. It straddles the border 0:00:27.210 --> 0:00:30.730 of San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente. There have been 0:00:30.770 --> 0:00:34.110 many homes burning or have already burned and are nothing 0:00:34.150 --> 0:00:38.430 but ashes. Flames shooting through the roofs of some homes 0:00:39.250 --> 0:00:43.610 and massive traffic jams in the area. The fires in 0:00:43.650 --> 0:00:49.600 the Portico del Norte section broke out at 1130. We 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.380 are now going to talk to Orange County Supervisor Katrina 0:00:53.500 --> 0:00:57.640 Foley to see what she knows. Katrina, welcome. How are you? 0:01:00.620 --> 0:01:03.360 I'm just trying to help. Spread the word to the 0:01:03.420 --> 0:01:06.330 community to sign up for Alert OC so they can 0:01:06.370 --> 0:01:10.690 get real-time updates. Evacuate if you're in the evacuation zone 0:01:10.750 --> 0:01:13.850 because we don't know how this wind could change the 0:01:13.890 --> 0:01:18.520 direction of the fires. And we know that our teams 0:01:18.620 --> 0:01:22.980 are working really hard to stop forward progress. We're at 0:01:23.020 --> 0:01:28.210 about 465 acres, four homes burned in San Juan. Two 0:01:28.310 --> 0:01:31.190 other homes damaged. I'm not sure what city they're in yet, 0:01:31.290 --> 0:01:35.820 either San Juan or San Clemente. And we've got air support, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.160 land support. We're doing everything we can to stop forward 0:01:39.180 --> 0:01:40.160 progress of this fire. 0:01:40.180 --> 0:01:44.069 Do you have a lot of units from various towns 0:01:44.130 --> 0:01:47.110 in Orange County working on this? Yes. 0:01:47.830 --> 0:01:48.470 Yes, we have. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.440 Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach. We've got the CAL 0:01:53.500 --> 0:01:57.260 FIRE team in the air. Even I saw a Riverside 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.200 County truck out here. And then we've got our Orange 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.540 County Sheriff's Department. They're working on evacuations, and they're working 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.500 hard to get the community that's in the evacuation zones out. 0:02:09.860 --> 0:02:12.639 And then also, of course, CHP is helping with all 0:02:12.660 --> 0:02:15.940 of our traffic situation you know the five is closed 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.480 if you don't have to drive on the five please 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.640 don't because it's uh it's just a parking lot. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.839 Right now well you can't go anywhere anyway so it's 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.880 kind of pointless to get on the five because you're 0:02:26.900 --> 0:02:29.739 just going to sit there for hours have they pinpointed 0:02:30.540 --> 0:02:32.380 exactly where the fire started. 0:02:32.060 --> 0:02:38.810 Uh this fire started at uh let's see i have 0:02:38.850 --> 0:02:39.810 that actually um. 0:02:43.020 --> 0:02:46.780 I know they started about 1130 in the morning. Portico 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.660 del Norte. 0:02:47.820 --> 0:02:50.350 Oh, I just got in. Yeah, that's where the fire started. 0:02:50.389 --> 0:02:52.290 I just got an update. All the homes damaged are 0:02:52.310 --> 0:02:53.450 in San Juan Capistrano. 0:02:53.650 --> 0:02:53.970 Okay. 0:02:54.630 --> 0:03:03.040 And yeah, it was Portico del Norte and Eminencia del Norte. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:04.380 That's the cross street. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.500 But do we know if it was in a field 0:03:06.580 --> 0:03:08.100 or was it in a neighborhood area? 0:03:09.790 --> 0:03:12.370 Um, I'm not sure. And I haven't, I've asked, they 0:03:12.410 --> 0:03:15.810 haven't told me what the cause of the fire is yet. 0:03:15.990 --> 0:03:16.210 Right. 0:03:16.910 --> 0:03:19.869 And no, we do have evacuation shelters. If people need 0:03:19.910 --> 0:03:22.970 to evacuate and don't have any place to go, San 0:03:22.990 --> 0:03:26.750 Juan Capistrano community center, San Clemente community center. And then 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.860 of course our, we just opened up our hotline, um, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.800 for the County. Um, our County operations center is activated 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:35.840 and our hotline is. 0:03:40.100 --> 0:03:40.200 714-628-7085. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.720 And that hotline you can call if you have questions, 0:03:44.420 --> 0:03:48.040 if you need information. But I do think that signing 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.360 up for Alert OC to get real-time updates right to 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.880 your phone is the best way to stay apprised of 0:03:55.940 --> 0:03:56.640 the situation. 0:03:56.660 --> 0:03:58.080 Alert OC. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.010 That's right. That's our emergency management alert system that we 0:04:04.450 --> 0:04:06.970 really have set up over the last couple of years. 0:04:07.430 --> 0:04:10.150 And we've been doing a lot of education in the 0:04:10.190 --> 0:04:12.050 community to try to get people to sign up for 0:04:12.070 --> 0:04:15.360 Alert OC. You can sign up by city or all 0:04:15.380 --> 0:04:15.920 of the county. 0:04:16.180 --> 0:04:18.360 And is that a website that they have to access? 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.160 Yeah, you go to alertoc.com. 0:04:22.620 --> 0:04:25.560 Okay. And then it's self-evident how you register for it 0:04:25.580 --> 0:04:26.660 to get the notifications. 0:04:26.860 --> 0:04:29.940 Yeah. You can get notifications by email. 0:04:29.660 --> 0:04:34.039 Or text, either way. Was everybody in law enforcement, especially 0:04:34.060 --> 0:04:38.060 in the fire department, emergency services, on high alert? Because 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.200 you know everybody was asleep here in the Los Angeles 0:04:41.260 --> 0:04:44.740 area two years ago. I imagine things are always different 0:04:44.779 --> 0:04:45.500 in Orange County. 0:04:45.779 --> 0:04:49.270 Yeah. We're on high alert every day. Are you kidding me? 0:04:49.430 --> 0:04:52.230 Especially in the 5th District. This is a dynamic district. 0:04:52.250 --> 0:04:55.680 We're always having some kind of incident. Yesterday, I was 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.460 dealing with coastal erosion, PCH shutdown because of erosion of 0:05:00.500 --> 0:05:07.140 the cliff, and flooding in Newport, and... Today we're talking 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:12.520 about fires. So it is a high alert time. It 0:05:12.580 --> 0:05:16.930 seems nonstop, but our fire authority is always ready. We 0:05:16.990 --> 0:05:21.750 know that fire season is every day now, especially when 0:05:21.790 --> 0:05:24.610 Santa Ana winds come, everyone's at the ready. 0:05:25.270 --> 0:05:29.060 Well, all you have left is the earthquake. And then 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.160 you will have completed the grand slam of disasters. 0:05:33.490 --> 0:05:35.810 Don't say that. Well, yeah, I don't know. There could 0:05:35.830 --> 0:05:36.969 be others, but let's hope not. 0:05:37.490 --> 0:05:39.940 All right, Katrina, listen, stay in touch with us. And 0:05:39.980 --> 0:05:42.400 if there's anything you want to announce, we have, as 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.240 you know, a huge listenership in Orange County. So this 0:05:46.300 --> 0:05:49.520 is a real great way to get important information out 0:05:49.620 --> 0:05:53.430 to just tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people 0:05:53.470 --> 0:05:53.890 all at once. 0:05:54.570 --> 0:05:58.410 Yeah. We appreciate you helping us inform the residents and 0:05:58.570 --> 0:06:00.849 make sure that people get signed up for alert OCs. 0:06:01.230 --> 0:06:04.800 We also discourage people from kind of being looking loose 0:06:04.860 --> 0:06:08.760 and coming out of the fire because the wind could 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.620 change and then you're in danger. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.440 Yeah. Yeah. Don't do that. That's idiotic. Yeah. All right. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.980 Katrina Foley, Orange County Supervisor. Thank you for coming on 0:06:18.060 --> 0:06:22.870 and sharing all that. And alertoc.com and sign up and 0:06:22.890 --> 0:06:26.120 then you will get your phone buzzing and sending you 0:06:26.140 --> 0:06:29.039 messages on when it's time to get the hell out. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.180 That's the best way to do it because then they 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.300 could send you a direct message. Sometimes it's hard to 0:06:34.339 --> 0:06:37.390 keep track of which zone you're in when they start 0:06:37.410 --> 0:06:41.529 announcing the evacuation zones on social media. 0:06:41.550 --> 0:06:41.630 Yeah. 0:06:43.300 --> 0:06:46.180 Norte Fire. We will talk more when we come back 0:06:46.260 --> 0:06:47.200 with the latest details. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:54.390 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:06:54.390 --> 0:06:56.130 Karen Bass is going to be on the show. Mayor 0:06:56.190 --> 0:07:00.170 Karen Bass, our guest, 5 o'clock on Tuesday here at 0:07:00.190 --> 0:07:06.089 the KFI studios. And speaking of that race with Nithya Raman, 0:07:06.910 --> 0:07:10.620 they are in a fight over a dead police chief. 0:07:12.900 --> 0:07:18.080 This is Darryl Gates. He was the chief of police 0:07:18.180 --> 0:07:21.820 from the late 70s to the early 90s here in 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.380 Los Angeles. Those of you who are old enough will 0:07:24.420 --> 0:07:28.380 remember him. One of the most controversial figures ever. A 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.800 lot of people thought he had a poor response to 0:07:33.820 --> 0:07:37.580 the riots of 92, the Rodney King riots. And a 0:07:37.620 --> 0:07:40.930 lot of black people thought he was a big racist. Now, 0:07:41.190 --> 0:07:47.050 when Ken and I joined the station, Gates had a 0:07:47.090 --> 0:07:52.330 show here in this time slot. And it was right 0:07:52.390 --> 0:07:56.910 after the riots and right after he resigned. And so, 0:07:56.930 --> 0:08:00.430 of course, KFI hired him immediately. And then he was 0:08:00.450 --> 0:08:03.170 going to have his show moved, and we were the replacements. 0:08:04.270 --> 0:08:06.540 And our first time on the air on KFI was 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:12.050 with Daryl Gates. and he was actually a very charming 0:08:12.090 --> 0:08:14.090 guy off the air. I didn't know what I was 0:08:14.130 --> 0:08:16.630 going to run into because I just knew about the reputation, 0:08:16.670 --> 0:08:19.690 but one-on-one we had a good relationship with him. His 0:08:19.750 --> 0:08:25.010 show followed ours for a time after that. He had 0:08:25.150 --> 0:08:31.320 signed something called Special Order 40, and this prevented LAPD 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.320 from stopping people if the only purpose of the stop 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:40.800 was to determine their immigration status. So this was one 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:46.800 issue where civil libertarians loved him, is that he told 0:08:46.900 --> 0:08:52.730 the LAPD officers to stop detaining people who looked like 0:08:53.030 --> 0:08:56.630 they're illegal. And in the debate the other night with 0:08:56.670 --> 0:09:01.150 Karen Bass, Nithya Raman referred to Gates' policy, and Gates, 0:09:01.990 --> 0:09:06.910 she said the policy was the gold standard. Well, this 0:09:07.010 --> 0:09:13.229 set Karen Bass off. who accused her of romanticizing that 0:09:13.390 --> 0:09:16.880 era and that she doesn't understand the city's history of 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.979 police abuse against black people and the suffering of black 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:27.370 and Latino residents under Gates, which, of course, was epitomized 0:09:27.410 --> 0:09:30.150 in her mind by the beating of Rodney King that 0:09:30.190 --> 0:09:34.830 was caught on videotape. Rahman's exact quote was, the city 0:09:34.890 --> 0:09:37.640 used to be the gold standard in terms of non-cooperation 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.179 with immigration enforcement years ago under the era of Daryl Gates. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.680 So Bass put together a group of black leaders and 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.020 held a press conference and said it was a lie 0:09:48.420 --> 0:09:52.890 to portray Gates as the gold standard. And she wants 0:09:52.910 --> 0:09:57.630 Rahman to retract her remarks, saying Gates inflicted serious harm 0:09:57.670 --> 0:10:02.340 to the African-American community. My opponent is not really familiar 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.939 with L.A., especially the black community. And that's obviously true. 0:10:05.980 --> 0:10:10.830 She's only spent 13 years here. So she came over 0:10:10.910 --> 0:10:14.690 two decades after the riots and after the Gates era. 0:10:16.190 --> 0:10:23.140 Rahman immediately backed off and decided to call Gates an 0:10:23.179 --> 0:10:28.080 abhorrent and racist police chief and accused Bass of deliberately 0:10:28.140 --> 0:10:35.179 distorting her statement. And she's ticked off about LAPD cooperation 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.700 with ICE. Now, of course, we don't know what we 0:10:38.740 --> 0:10:47.319 don't know, but Rahman is intentionally dishonest because if you have. 0:10:48.940 --> 0:10:54.490 Riot groups, activist groups like CHIRLA, and they choose to 0:10:54.530 --> 0:10:58.870 go out in the street and start a riot, and 0:10:59.309 --> 0:11:04.110 they're throwing firecrackers at police officers and dropping cement blocks 0:11:05.250 --> 0:11:10.110 on police cars or ICE cars, then LAPD has a 0:11:10.170 --> 0:11:14.560 duty to protect life. And they will especially do so 0:11:14.740 --> 0:11:19.360 if it's the lives of law enforcement officers. So Rahman 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.340 blurts these things out and nobody challenges her. What's the 0:11:23.380 --> 0:11:27.520 alternative to not having LAPD help out the ICE agents? 0:11:28.300 --> 0:11:31.850 Let the ICE agents take a face full of fireworks 0:11:31.910 --> 0:11:36.170 and maybe they die? Let the ICE agents take a 0:11:36.230 --> 0:11:40.830 cement block dropping on their heads and they die? What 0:11:40.890 --> 0:11:45.140 she wants is the ICE agents to die a violent death. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.410 Because that's what these rioters wanted to do. They wanted 0:11:49.450 --> 0:11:52.970 to kill the ICE agents. When you drop a cement 0:11:53.030 --> 0:11:56.130 block on somebody's car, you're hoping there's somebody in there 0:11:56.150 --> 0:11:59.150 and you're going to kill them. When you blow fireworks 0:11:59.380 --> 0:12:06.140 off in somebody's face, you want to kill them. See, 0:12:06.420 --> 0:12:09.479 I will give her credit. She's pretty consistent. She wants 0:12:09.500 --> 0:12:13.380 to defund the police and abolish the police so that 0:12:13.450 --> 0:12:16.490 there is no function, there is no duty for the police, 0:12:16.610 --> 0:12:19.310 not even to protect other police who are in danger 0:12:19.390 --> 0:12:26.550 of being killed by the rioters that Rahman supports. So 0:12:28.590 --> 0:12:30.430 I'm surprised she keeps pushing this. 0:12:31.620 --> 0:12:31.840 Yes. 0:12:32.830 --> 0:12:37.440 LAPD is always going to help ICE out. And I 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.059 think morally and legally they're required to. They're required to 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.880 protect human life. And the protection of human life is 0:12:46.929 --> 0:12:51.850 an absolute. I mean, that's why we save criminals in 0:12:51.870 --> 0:12:55.350 the emergency room after the police shoot them. Even if 0:12:55.390 --> 0:12:59.850 you have murderers. who get shot, they get emergency medical care, 0:12:59.870 --> 0:13:01.750 and we're always told, well, it's the only humane thing 0:13:01.790 --> 0:13:04.690 to do. Well, the only humane thing to do is 0:13:04.730 --> 0:13:08.530 to protect ICE officers and other police officers when they're 0:13:08.610 --> 0:13:12.750 being threatened by street murderers, which is a lot of 0:13:12.770 --> 0:13:16.850 these activist groups have now morphed into murderous street gangs, 0:13:17.309 --> 0:13:24.920 of course, financed by our tax money. Gates' Special Order 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:29.720 40 was a signal, that immigrants could report a crime 0:13:29.850 --> 0:13:32.750 or serve as a witness and not fear being deported. 0:13:33.710 --> 0:13:37.450 But LAPD was allowed to work with federal immigration agencies. 0:13:38.290 --> 0:13:43.090 So she's wrong on that end, too. Now, she's either 0:13:43.150 --> 0:13:50.700 ignorant or stupid. Willfully, I don't know. I'd say she's 0:13:50.740 --> 0:13:54.600 ignorant and stupid. She has the whole tenets of Special 0:13:54.660 --> 0:14:00.350 Order 40 wrong. And she doesn't seem to understand the 0:14:00.429 --> 0:14:05.829 purpose of a police officer. She's so busy shouting anti-police 0:14:06.370 --> 0:14:10.000 rhetoric for at least the last six years, she forgot 0:14:10.170 --> 0:14:12.800 what the rest of us want. And the rest of us, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.800 including illegal immigrants, want the police around so we all 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.860 don't get killed. And Nithya Raman and the rest of 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.450 her DSA maniacs apparently don't mind a society where there 0:14:26.490 --> 0:14:32.290 are no police around to keep you from getting murdered. Now, 0:14:32.450 --> 0:14:35.910 they explicitly call for the abolition of the police, the DSA, 0:14:35.990 --> 0:14:38.670 which she is a proud member and has their endorsement. 0:14:39.890 --> 0:14:44.210 And according to the DSA, if anybody gets an endorsement 0:14:44.250 --> 0:14:47.330 as a candidate, they're required to co-govern, which means you 0:14:47.350 --> 0:14:50.770 have to check with the DSA. to see if your 0:14:50.830 --> 0:14:57.790 policies are kosher with the party. And that's why she's 0:14:57.820 --> 0:15:02.239 so insistent. You could look up her Twitter feed. I 0:15:02.260 --> 0:15:04.660 think Spencer Pratt has been reprinting some of the highlights 0:15:04.980 --> 0:15:08.740 from 2020, and she clearly said defund the police. And 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:14.980 defund completely. And she wants to replace them with, I 0:15:15.020 --> 0:15:23.370 don't know, social workers, I guess. I, I, I, I'm 0:15:23.510 --> 0:15:29.350 ramen is so freaking nuts. I'm actually stunned even by 0:15:29.530 --> 0:15:35.030 idiot candidate standards. She is completely, absolutely out of her mind, 0:15:36.530 --> 0:15:38.820 but she looks nice and she dresses well. And apparently 0:15:38.860 --> 0:15:41.620 that is enough to sway people. It's like the Newsome effect. 0:15:43.340 --> 0:15:45.780 Newsome is dumb as a box of rocks, but boy, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.530 he gets over 60% of the women's vote. And I 0:15:50.570 --> 0:15:51.930 don't think they love him for his brain. 0:15:53.630 --> 0:15:58.070 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:15:58.070 --> 0:16:06.050 KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt show. 0:16:06.830 --> 0:16:09.430 And we're on to six after six. The podcast John 0:16:09.450 --> 0:16:14.530 Kobelt show on demand for what you missed. And continuing 0:16:14.770 --> 0:16:18.730 coverage when warranted of the fire in Orange County. San Clemente, 0:16:18.770 --> 0:16:23.410 San Juan Capistrano, which has burned at least eight homes, 0:16:23.430 --> 0:16:27.250 465-plus acres. If there's a news conference giving more detail, 0:16:27.290 --> 0:16:29.150 we'll bring it to you immediately, and Debra's going to 0:16:29.170 --> 0:16:33.860 have constant updates as well. And if you're stuck in traffic, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.680 thousands of people are in Orange County. There's virtually no movement. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.580 The 5 is closed between Harbor Drive and— oh, it just 0:16:42.620 --> 0:16:45.970 blipped off the screen here. But you know where it's closed. 0:16:46.110 --> 0:16:47.550 And Angel will have more in just a few. 0:16:47.830 --> 0:16:48.070 Yes. 0:16:48.610 --> 0:16:53.430 So just sit and enjoy us. Just enjoy the party here. Now, uh, 0:16:54.380 --> 0:16:56.320 Karen Bass is going to be on the show Tuesday, 0:16:56.500 --> 0:16:59.500 October 20th, five o'clock. So you want to be tuned 0:16:59.540 --> 0:17:05.800 in for that. The, uh, DWP is one of the 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:15.080 most incompetent and corrupt agencies, uh, Deborah's nodding. Yeah, that 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:15.740 bill you get. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:16.280 Oh, yeah. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:17.400 It's ridiculous. 0:17:18.270 --> 0:17:20.150 Did you see the bill? I got to talk about 0:17:20.170 --> 0:17:23.370 that next. The bill that Cantor's Deli got? 0:17:23.910 --> 0:17:26.470 What was it? $ 35, 000? Yeah, something like that. 0:17:27.290 --> 0:17:27.990 The water bill. 0:17:28.130 --> 0:17:29.149 That's insane. 0:17:29.270 --> 0:17:30.530 And you know what they said? Well, you must have 0:17:30.570 --> 0:17:31.730 a leak. That's what they always do. 0:17:31.750 --> 0:17:33.129 That's what they always say. 0:17:33.210 --> 0:17:37.040 Yeah. You had some skirmish with DWP. 0:17:37.300 --> 0:17:37.990 Yes, I have. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.320 Yeah. They had a billing system, I know, some years ago. 0:17:41.790 --> 0:17:44.990 that was charging people like $ 50, 000 and more. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.260 It's ridiculous, and you never can win. No. Don't get 0:17:49.300 --> 0:17:51.600 me started. Don't get me started. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:58.390 The DWP, and until recently run by Janice Quinonez, they 0:17:58.630 --> 0:18:02.070 are the ones who never filled the reservoir in Pacific Palisades. 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.830 And as the fire was raging in Malibu yesterday, and 0:18:06.869 --> 0:18:10.429 it's still going on, everybody noticed that the reservoir is 0:18:10.470 --> 0:18:15.609 still not filled. That's right. Even after all the criticism 0:18:15.650 --> 0:18:20.270 and controversy and tragedy and people dying, the DWP still 0:18:20.310 --> 0:18:25.690 didn't fill the reservoir. Now, here is an example of 0:18:25.830 --> 0:18:30.740 a fine DWP employee. There is a gang of graffiti vandals. 0:18:32.070 --> 0:18:36.710 And they go around defacing buildings in L.A. with their 0:18:37.050 --> 0:18:44.119 stupid spray paint. They have racked up $ 173, 000 in damages. 0:18:45.220 --> 0:18:49.500 One member of this gang who has been arrested is 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:57.179 Javier Resendez Rocha. Javier Resendez Rocha. And he is an 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:02.700 electrical craft helper for the LADWP. He's been working there 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.180 eight years. Oh, and everybody at the LADWP makes a fortune, okay? 0:19:07.900 --> 0:19:12.680 Roach is facing 12 felony counts of vandalism, which ran 0:19:12.700 --> 0:19:16.940 a year from August of last year through August of 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.120 this year. Oh, yeah. You want to know what he makes? Well, 0:19:20.140 --> 0:19:24.020 they have a salary range here, depending on how long 0:19:24.060 --> 0:19:30.900 he's worked there. Ranges from $ 75, 000 to $ 102, 000. So, This 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:35.880 guy's not poor. This guy's making a decent, solid middle 0:19:35.900 --> 0:19:39.590 class salary in a job that he cannot be fired from. 0:19:41.190 --> 0:19:44.909 So he's not acting out the frustration of living in 0:19:44.930 --> 0:19:47.889 the ghetto or whatever nonsense they preach. He's simply a criminal. 0:19:48.970 --> 0:19:53.110 And he takes spray paint. and he ruins all these 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.810 buildings with his nonsense. By the way, graffiti, just so 0:19:56.830 --> 0:20:01.510 you know, is not art. It is the disgusting vandalism. 0:20:02.010 --> 0:20:06.670 It is bad art. It's ugly. It's foul. It's horrible. 0:20:06.750 --> 0:20:13.500 I hate looking at it. Police say defendants used ladders 0:20:13.859 --> 0:20:18.790 and special climbing equipments to scale tall buildings, then lay 0:20:18.850 --> 0:20:24.950 on the spray paint, and then they launched drones so 0:20:25.770 --> 0:20:28.890 they could take video and then, I guess, post it online. 0:20:32.210 --> 0:20:35.920 Then they sold merchandise showing off their graffiti. I guess 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:40.170 they had Graffiti t-shirts? They turned it into this business. 0:20:42.090 --> 0:20:44.690 I mean, these people should be locked up, I say, 0:20:44.690 --> 0:20:50.639 50 years. In John Lovia, when I had my own country, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:52.280 these guys. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:53.240 John Lovia? 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.880 John Lovia. John Lovia, you see. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:57.929 Oh, John Lovia. 0:20:57.990 --> 0:20:59.490 So it's a gentle sounding country. 0:20:59.510 --> 0:21:01.250 Oh, so you just changed it within a second? 0:21:01.369 --> 0:21:05.460 Yeah, I liked John Lovia better. So it's not harsh, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.689 you know. It's soft and loving. John, love you. 0:21:08.700 --> 0:21:09.780 You soft and loving. 0:21:09.820 --> 0:21:12.510 That's right. But what I do to these guys is 0:21:14.150 --> 0:21:18.330 I would hang them upside down, chain them to a wall, 0:21:18.410 --> 0:21:19.350 and cut off their hands. 0:21:19.850 --> 0:21:21.109 Oh, I thought you were going to say something else. 0:21:21.330 --> 0:21:24.709 Well, we could cut that too. As long as we 0:21:24.750 --> 0:21:27.440 got the power saw out, let's take care of it. 0:21:27.450 --> 0:21:30.000 They really don't have their hands cut off. They must 0:21:30.020 --> 0:21:31.000 do that in some country. 0:21:31.340 --> 0:21:31.960 Yeah, I'm sure. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:37.430 Probably Singapore. Or Saudi Arabia. 0:21:37.710 --> 0:21:38.689 I was going to say. 0:21:39.630 --> 0:21:43.409 Look that up. What countries do they cut the hands off? Thieves. 0:21:43.490 --> 0:21:47.040 I know that went on somewhere. Thieves, graffiti artists. If 0:21:47.100 --> 0:21:51.540 people start losing their hands, you'll see graffiti disappear. Oh, 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.240 of course. In just a matter of hours. It's like, 0:21:54.260 --> 0:21:56.480 you want to go graffiti the building? No, I'm not. 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:01.770 My hand sawed off. Who wants to do that? Some 0:22:01.790 --> 0:22:06.879 of the buildings were historically significant. And Nathan Hockman, L.A. 0:22:06.900 --> 0:22:12.810 County D.A., said these defendants turned buildings into their personal billboards. 0:22:13.890 --> 0:22:17.730 This was not harmless graffiti. These are not victimless crimes 0:22:17.830 --> 0:22:20.070 as they destroy the quality of life. Yes, I've been 0:22:20.090 --> 0:22:22.330 waiting all my life for an official to say that. Well, 0:22:22.390 --> 0:22:26.909 it's just property. It's victimless crimes. They're just buildings. It's like, no. No, 0:22:26.930 --> 0:22:34.650 it's cost $ 173, 000 worth of damage. not a victimless crime 0:22:35.170 --> 0:22:37.790 iran and sudan cut the hands off of thieves there 0:22:37.830 --> 0:22:42.270 you go there's one point for iran see and somalia 0:22:42.369 --> 0:22:45.950 and afghanistan there you go that's that's the hall of 0:22:45.990 --> 0:22:54.199 fame right there iran somalia afghanistan and sudan nothing for 0:22:54.240 --> 0:23:00.170 graffiti artists though oh wow yeah i i I bet 0:23:00.190 --> 0:23:02.010 you if you go to their cities, you don't see 0:23:02.050 --> 0:23:04.220 any graffiti, though. Probably not. It seems like you'd get 0:23:04.260 --> 0:23:10.700 a bad reaction. Yeah. And you hack body parts off. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:17.740 Changes everything. Also, the other defendants are Michael Ray Gonzalez 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:23.550 of Pico Rivera, Francisco Rodriguez Aguilar, Richard Evan Ward II, and... 0:23:26.670 --> 0:23:32.470 They either have pled not guilty or they're due for arraignment. And, yeah, 0:23:32.609 --> 0:23:35.190 Rocha could get up to 10 years in county jail. 0:23:36.310 --> 0:23:43.860 And he should. He should. 50 years. Loss of both hands. John, 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.000 love you. You could be an ambassador. 0:23:48.060 --> 0:23:49.239 How much are you going to pay me? 0:23:50.500 --> 0:23:51.760 That's your answer to every question. 0:23:53.750 --> 0:23:55.470 Well, I mean, if I'm going to leave here. 0:23:55.690 --> 0:23:58.459 I'll make you the Kimberly Guilfoyle of John Luvia. 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:04.040 Okay. 0:24:04.700 --> 0:24:05.240 More coming up. 0:24:06.220 --> 0:24:12.550 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:24:18.340 --> 0:24:22.200 KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show. 0:24:23.020 --> 0:24:25.340 Two rounds of the Moistline coming up after 5 o'clock. 0:24:26.180 --> 0:24:29.669 And we are live on X and live on YouTube. 0:24:30.550 --> 0:24:32.169 And you want to subscribe, become a member, go to 0:24:32.210 --> 0:24:36.920 YouTube.com slash at John Kobelt Show. YouTube.com slash at John 0:24:36.980 --> 0:24:41.560 Kobelt's show. So we were talking about that LADWP worker 0:24:41.619 --> 0:24:46.070 who might make as much as $ 102, 000 a year, and 0:24:46.109 --> 0:24:48.910 in his spare time, he's part of a graffiti gang 0:24:49.010 --> 0:24:53.950 that sprays public buildings, office buildings, and they have collectively 0:24:54.010 --> 0:25:01.260 caused $ 173, 000 worth of damage. And meantime, the DWP still 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.520 has an empty reservoir in the Palisades. They're slowly filling it. 0:25:05.070 --> 0:25:07.450 I think they have a garden sprinkler at the bottom. 0:25:07.930 --> 0:25:08.350 It drips. 0:25:08.490 --> 0:25:15.110 Little teeny drips. Very slowly. And I think by 2052, 0:25:15.109 --> 0:25:22.800 it'll be filled. Now, the DWP is known to hand 0:25:22.859 --> 0:25:30.919 out fraudulent bills. It's notorious for that. And, you know, 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:34.730 Cantor's Deli in the Fairfax District. Mark Cantor is the 0:25:34.830 --> 0:25:38.910 third generation owner. Cantor's Deli has been around for 95 years. 0:25:39.570 --> 0:25:44.170 Mark Cantor is running it along with his sister. And 0:25:44.710 --> 0:25:51.290 he got an electric bill, an electric and water bill, $ 34, 000. $ 34, 000. 0:25:50.390 --> 0:26:05.629 That's up $ 10, 000 in just four months. And DWP says, well, 0:26:05.770 --> 0:26:12.189 you must have had a leak. You know, which is 0:26:12.230 --> 0:26:17.550 what they always say. Because then they put balls back 0:26:17.590 --> 0:26:19.879 in your cart, you got to go find a plumber 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:24.280 and they got to track down the leak and you'll 0:26:24.300 --> 0:26:28.479 leave the DWP alone for a while. Even if it's 0:26:28.859 --> 0:26:31.680 not a leak, it's an error, good luck trying to 0:26:31.740 --> 0:26:37.050 get them to correct it. I ended up, not with 0:26:37.070 --> 0:26:42.750 the DWP, but with a financial company on the phone. Oh, 0:26:42.750 --> 0:26:44.230 I meant to tell you about the details of this 0:26:44.330 --> 0:26:44.770 off the air. 0:26:45.450 --> 0:26:46.070 Did you yell? 0:26:47.390 --> 0:26:50.190 No, I did not. I'm trying not to yell at 0:26:50.410 --> 0:26:51.870 idiot customer service workers. 0:26:52.170 --> 0:26:52.690 Is it working? 0:26:54.010 --> 0:26:55.410